Student Projects

[1]. S. Hanslia and C.E. Williams, Magnetic Imaging of Current Flow in MXenes Using Quantum Sensors (co-advised with Raisa Trubko and Kateryna Kushnir Friedman), 2025 (The Provost MQP Award; The Robert Goddard Award)
[2]. Z.W. Adams, Optimal Defect Layer Position in Electromagnetic Energy Absorbers (co-advised with Burt Tilley, sponsored by MITRE Corp.), 2025 
[3]. I.A. Benjamin and S. Clarke, 3D Image Reconstruction of a Fossil Using Neutron Tomography (co-advised with David Medich, sponsored by Paul Scherrer Institute), 2024

[4]. J. Jorgensen, Optimal Energy Absorption in Resonant Two-Layer Laminates (co-advised with Burt Tilley), 2022

[5]. C. Hogan, Computational Characterization of a Millimeter-Wave Heat Exchanger with AlN:Mo Cylindrical Susceptors (co-advised with Alex Zozulya), 2021 (MQP Honorable Mention Award)

[6]. T. York, Modeling-Backed Microwave Imaging in Closed Systems: Reconstruction of a Spherical Inhomogeneity, 2017

[7]. E.M. Moon, Modeling-Based Optimization of Thermal Processing in Microwave Fixation, 2015

[8]. A. Holmes, Modeling-Based Scale-Up of Reactors in Microwave-Assisted Chemistry, 2013

[9]. C. Yang, Macroscopic Modeling of Microwave-Enabled Production of Solution-Processable Graphene (co-advised with Alex Zozulya), 2013 (The Provost MQP Award)

Project [5]: Model of the millimeter-wave heat exchanger physical prototype: five AlN:Mo cylinders on a metal plate. Time evolution of the temperature field in the vertical plane through the two edge cylinders with Mo = 0.25. ..., 4.0 %. (From [6] in Publications I.)

[1]. C.E. Williams, Model of Microwave Plasma for Electromagnetic Simulations: Steps Towards Experimental Verification (Independent Project), 2024.
[2]. Z.W. Adams, Optimal Defect-Layer Positions in Thin Electromagnetic Energy Absorbers (WPI Summer Training in Arts and Sciences Research (STAR) Fellowship), (co-advised with Burt Tilley), 2024
[3]. C.E. Williams, Machine-Learning Efficiency Optimization of Microwave Systems with Plasma (ORNL), 2023

[4]. Z.W. Adams and K. Gomez-Haibach, Optimizing Multilayer Electromagnetic Heat Exchangers (AFOSR) (co-advised with Burt Tilley), 2023

[5]. C.E. Williams, Characterization of Microwave Plasma in Electromagnetic Modeling (WPI Summer Training in Arts and Sciences Research (STAR) Fellowship), 2022

[6]. Y. Chen, K. Grieco, D. Milligan, and N. Willemsen, Optimizing Radiation Absorption in an Electromagnetic Heat Exchanger Model (WPI CIMS REU Program) (co-advised with Burt Tilley), 2022

[7]. P. Kumi, Quantitative Characterization of Uniformity of High Frequency Heating (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)), 2018

[1]. Ajit A. Mohekar, Fundamental Mechanisms of Energy Transport in Layered Electromagnetic Heat Exchangers with Compressible and Incompressible Fluids, 2022, co-advised with Burt Tilley - Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 

[2]. Jospeh M. Gaone, An Asymptotic Approach to Modeling Wave-Geometry Interactions in an Electromagnetic Heat Exchanger, 2019, co-advised with Burt Tilley -  Ph.D. in Mathematics

[3]. Stephanie A. Martin, Computational Characterization of Thermal Processes in an AIN:Mo Susceptor in a Millimeter Wave Heat Exchanger, 2019 - M.S. in Industrial Mathematics 

[4]. Erin M. Kiley, Reduced-Dimensional Coupled Electromagnetic, Thermal, and Mechanical Models of Microwave Sintering, 2016 - Ph.D. in Mathematics 

[5]. Brian G. Cordes, Modeling-Based Minimization of Time-to Uniformity in Microwave Heating System, 2007 - M.S. in Applied Mathematics

• 57th IMPI’s Annual Microwave Power Symposium, Denver, CO, 2023, Student Paper Competition, Best Poster Award: Camille E. Williams

• 53rd IMPI’s Annual Microwave Power Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, 2019, Student Paper Competition, Honorable Mention Award: Petra Kumi 

• MRS 2018 Fall Meeting, Symposium PM05 Electromagnetic Fields in Materials Synthesis – Far from Equilibrium Effects, Boston, MA, Best Poster Award: Ajit A. Mohekar

• 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, San Francisco, CA, Student Paper Competition, Honorable Mention: Erin M. Kiley

• 49th IMPI's Microwave Power Symposium, San Diego, CA, June 2015, Best Student Paper Award: Ethan M. Moon

• 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Tampa, FL, Finalist of the Student Paper Competition: Chuqiao (Vicky) Yang 

• The Annual WPI Graduate Research Poster Competition (GRAD 2014), PhD Interdisciplinary Category, First Place: Erin M. Kiley 

• 47th IMPI's Microwave Power Symposium, Providence, RI, June 2013, Best Student Paper Award: Chuqiao (Vicky) Yang; Honorable Mention Award: Andrew Holmes

• IEEE R-1 Student Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2013, Second Places in Student Contest: Chuqiao (Vicky) Yang

• Camille E. Williams: The WPI Olson Award, Mathematical Sciences Department, 2023

• Camille E. Williams: WPI Summer Training in Arts and Sciences Research (STAR) Fellowship, 2022

• Petra Kumi: WPI Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), 2018

• Erin M. Kiley: STEM Chateaubriand Foundation Fellowship, France, 2015 

• Chuqiao (Vicky) Yang: The WPI Salisbury Prize, Mathematical Sciences Department, 2013

• Erin M. Kiley: Graduate Research Fellowship Program, US National Science Foundation, 2010 

• Erin M. Kiley: J.W. Fulbright Fellowship for US Students, US Department of State and the Institute of International Education, 2008

• Erin M. Kiley: ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship, Office of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Embassy of Switzerland in the USA, 2008